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EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 48 MIN

The History of The Tricolour (Part 3)

from What Were We Like · host RTÉ

This episode charts the Tricolour's 20th Century evolution: its formal adoption in 1937; getting the Brits to return the Tricolour that flew over the GPO in 1916; all the way up to Italia '90.The gruesome digging up of Roger Casement's body features, as does John McGahern's most famous novel, Amongst Women, which came out in 1990 with a Tricolour splashed across its cover.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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